Tag: drawing
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Mixing Up The Art Supplies
I started the day with a small oil painting, a study in a canvas sketchbook. My subject was a still-life of two oranges, a blueberry and a banana. This is me trying to kickstart a (maybe) daily oil painting practise. I hadn’t pulled out the oils for a while, and I really enjoyed playing with…
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Finished a Sketchbook
I finished a sketchbook today. I’m not sure how many pages it has, but it’s now full of graphite portrait drawings and sketches done in twenty minutes or less. The top right is the first page, and the centre bottom is the last page, which I sketched today, and the others are some of my…
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Pondering
Contemplating the idea of a daily sketch as I have a tendency to forget about the joys of dry media. Pondering the new year, which comes after Hogmanay, and the Word of the Year, which is going to be a phrase it seems. I have definitely entered the end of year twilight zone where I…
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Daily Sketch
It will take me a couple of days to get into the swing of having the Murphy dog here, and temporarily rearranging around walks, sniffing expeditions, meals, his old man medication schedule, and of course doggie bosies. The art will fit back in, it just takes a bit of adjustment on my part. I will…
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Hare Brained
My lodger has departed *sniff* I need no presents or rewards for dog-sitting, but a beautiful sketchbook was given to me anyway, and I seem to need a lot of sketchbooks. Ha. This one is 120gsm paper, so I’m inspired to just use it for graphite sketching. It’s 9×12″ so it’s a nice size for…
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Operation Sketchbook
100 Day Project Day 96 I’m still thinking that it would be affa fine to finish one of my sketchbooks alongside completing the 100 Day Project, so I’ve put little page markers in the book to mark out how many pages I need to fill each day to get it done. It’s basically two spreads,…
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Things Can Only Get Better
100 Day Project Day 95 I confess I relished the rain as it pished doon on Rishi as he stood at the lectern in Dowing Street trying to big up his shite party while announcing the worst kept secret of the day, that a General Election is called for July 4th. Someone was at the…
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From Dust
100 Day Project Day 94 I had this idea that I was going to spend the last ten days of the 100 Day Project focussing on filling the last portion of the sketchbook I have mostly been working in. Almost as soon as I decided that was what I was going to focus on, I…
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Beard Profile
100 Day Project Day 91 These drawings are both from the same reference, and it’s interesting the way they differ from each other. The first is small, in my A5 sketchbook, drawn using an HB mechanical pencil. The reference photo was in colour on my PC monitor, and quite small. The second drawing is on…
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Not Painting That
100 Day Project Day 88 How I have procrastinated about a small watercolour portrait class today…. four pages in my A5 spiralbound sketchbook – two pages of graphite sketching, and two pages of Neocolor IIs sketching… making a mixed media background spread in my little square sketchbook… making another background in my altered book project……
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Resigned
100 Day Project Day 72 I decided to post this drawing from today, because it’s the one that most closely represents how I feel. A bit discombobulated. It’s a Scotland politics thing. We appear to be off on another journey of battling to prevent the right wing bangers from taking over the government again. Ho…
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Random Emergency Sketch
100 Day Project Day 68 I was planning a day of painting and drawing, but that didn’t happen. Scottish politics saw some seismic activity, and one of my Special Interests is politics, and so I was engrossed. It does not feel like a good day. In other news… if someone love-bombs you then apparently rejects…
Thrummie Bizzum 